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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
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Beginning Oneself Serious
God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.
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Despair Hard Time Inspirational Kill Life Order Peace
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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End Live Maturity Youth
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
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Heart Myself Nature Tears Tree
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Destiny Lonely Man Wise
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Positive Time Yourself
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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Instagram Captions Life Love Relationship Yourself
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Force Passion Soul Spiritual World
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
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Ourselves Philosophy
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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Death Lose Oneself Spiritual Transformation
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Freedom Goal Inspirational
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
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Afraid People Philosophy

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

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